Implementation of improvements to visa processing

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Performance audit (potential)

Potential

Potential audit: 2025-26

Portfolio

Home Affairs

Entity

Department of Home Affairs

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Service delivery

The potential audit would examine the effectiveness of measures to reduce the backlog in processing of visas, modernise the visa system and embed simplification.

The ANAO agreed to consider an audit into this topic in response to Recommendation 17 of the Joint Standing Committee on Migration in its September 2024 report Migration, Pathway to Nation Building.